According to A.Lundr, Plainwords broke up last year due to some ideological differences with their bassist and Jeremy having some issues with time due to his job as a tattoo artist. Crow and Lundr decided to keep going by starting a new band, Seidr, who is touring right now with Peregrine and Velnias. There wouldn't ever be a full length by this "supergroup". There is, however, one final demo, which I bring to your attention right now.

In my opinion, the sound of this demo is relatively far from black metal, it's more like epic crust in the vein of Fall Of Efrafa, with elements of post-rock and sludge. I guess it's a tendency among many blackened crust and leftist black metal bands to become more and more influenced by sludge and even doom metal, isn't it?...
Well, enough for today. Now I'm too tired and sleepy, and I need to answer a lot of mail tomorrow. And the last thing for today will be a new interview with Panopticon: read it here.

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Заводь are a new blackened crust band from Eastern Ukraine (Kharkiv), and their name means "creek of river" in both Russian and Ukrainian. Here's their first 6-track demo, which is very short (only about 4.5 minutes)... The first 5 tracks feature extreme raw blackened crust/powerviolence in the vein of Iskra and Life Is Hell. And the final track is obviously influenced by atmospheric black metal (especially of Cascadian kind). For me it's the best track on the whole demo, and I expect more stuff like that from them in the future.

Their lyrics are very symbolic and hard to translate. But at least I'll try to translate the song names:

In the embrace of valkyries, I feel that I need to get rid of everything and to find myself...

More than a word

Youth in the eyes

Of a proud name and low deeds

Agony of a forest

Human

Release notes: "Never thing that you do too much. Always try to do even more".

DOWNLOADAntichrist were a part of Polish anarcho-punk scene since 1998. They have recorded 1 LP and 4 EPs before they split up in 2002. Now the members of Antichrist are playing in a few other bands, including Silence (very cool depressive atmospheric crust, check it out!)

Unfortunately, Poland always was a stronghold of NSBM, clericalism and ultra-conservatism, so I haven't expected any anti-religious and anarchist crust/black metal band to come from Poland, especially in the very beginning of 2000s. But Antichrist are exactly such kind of band. And damn, their music is GOOD! I can't believe that EP was released as early as in 2002, even before Iskra's self-titled album. I definitely need to get all other releases by them...

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The newest recording by Wolvhammer definitely sounds better than "Rich With Bloodful", but it's still raw and hateful. Their full-length album is expected to be recorded in the spring of 2010 in Semaphore Studios (Chicago ), and the presumed title is "The Black Marketeers of World War III".

"We wanted to take the things we loved about old school black metal/post-punk/hardcore/doom/rock and infuse that into something truly honest. No bullshit Satanism or sensationalism, just pure honest hatred for religion, capitalism, politics, sheep mentality and typical human behaviour. We wanted to write simple, memorable, and truly hate-filled metal anthems for ourselves and all the other blue collar, working poor, and generally unsatisfied people who are looking for something raw and classic as soundtrack to rise up and fight the status quo around them in any way they see fit to do" - their drummer H.R.

P.S. Don't you think that some of their song titles are somewhat weird? For me they are, but maybe it's only because I'm not a native english speaker... Though some tracks by WITTR or Skagos have weird names too.

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Wolvhammer are a metal band from Minneapolis (Minnesota, US), who define themselves as "working class antichristian blackened sludge punk". Both of their EPs can be got for free from their blog. If you like raw mid-tempo blackened crust / sludgecore, them it's recommended for you to check them out!

If you have listened to 2006 demo by Anarres and are expecting the "postrock-ish" sound from their first album, then they're wrong. Now they're switched to deeply blackened crust... and they're playing it very good, I must say! The lyrical themes are varied from personal to political, and the music is dark and powerful. I don't know any other blackened crust or RABM bands from the Baltic states, but "Tarp Bajerio Ir Mirties" by Anarres makes me to expect much more good releases from Baltic scene.

Anarres are an anarchist band from Kaunas, Lithuania, who recorded their first demo in spring 2006. Back in these days, they were playing some kind of screamo/post-hardcore/experimental post-rock. This kind of sound is very typical to Baltic bands - if you like such bands as Tesa or When My Authorities Fall, then you know what I mean. Unlike their 2009 album, this demo isn't very much influenced by black metal, but it's still an interesting release (but please keep in mind that it's home-made, so the quality of production isn't very good).

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It's the last full-length release by that amazing Portland-based metal band (some members of which now are playing in Oakhelm and L'Acephale). If you're new to FotB, I'd recommend you this album first - it's for all lovers of progressive black/death metal!

Most likely there wouldn't be many updates in the near future, since I have too much to do besides this blog... but at least I'll try to do as much as possible. Maybe I'll make RABM-related videos, or to do some other stuff. Thank you all for your interest in my blog, and stay tuned!

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This is the latest release by FotB (in 2005 they split up, and some of their members went to form Oakhelm), and I enjoyed it a lot. Book Of Black Earth are good, but FotB are great! It looks like they were more of a pagan metal band by their lyrical content, but I don't know for sure (I couldn't find their lyrics neither on Metal-Archives, nor on DarkLyrics).

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To be honest, it's my least favourite release by FOTB. I didn't like Wormwood that much, and the track by FOTB is definitely not the best too. But you can at least give it a try, maybe you might like this split.

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Fall Of The Bastards may be one of the first anarcho-friendly black metal bands from the Cascadia region. I've heard about them as an ABM band even in early 2007, but I couldn't find any their albums then. J.Davisson mentions them in his paper along with other anarchist black metal bands (by the way, the paper is very interesting and I recommend to read it in a whole). The sound of "Where Dead Hang From Trees" is a surprisingly good mix of death metal and BM (as for me, it's more BM than death metal), and that album is recommended to anyone who are interested in progressive BM. And thanks to 7inchcrust for uploading this album (along with many more great albums!)

Embers are a very interesting depressive black/doom metal project with male and female vocals made by members of the Bay Area punk scene. Speaking of their sound, I think they're comparable to Mania and other Cascadian black metal bands. Embers were founded by two former members of Oakland-based anarcho-crust/hardcore band Lesser Of Two. According to info I've found, "their lyrics are extremely political, and in a novel turn from most armchair revolutionaries they actually practiced what they preached". More info about Embers can be found on their myspace. And their debut EP is very good and certainly recommended to everyone who like progressive black metal (I know many of my readers do like it!)

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I don't post much music of that kind in my blog, but I found this release very interesting. Slaughter 2017 is an industrial/alternative metal band from Moscow which holds radical left-wing beliefs (based mainly on marxism, but they're anarcho-frienldy too), and they're one of a few metal bands to state these views very explicitly. From their myspace:

"The teeth-grinding machine Slaughter2017 was launched in summer 2006 by vocalist and guitar player Engineer and drummer Venceremos. Soon the demo "In the Name of Equality" was recorded in the corporation with the female vocalist Olga. Before the Slaughter idea was realized a tandem Venceremos-Engeneer attacked The Wall not for the first time by working on project 1.9.8.4. (2005), participating in protest fests and left opposition actions. All that experience consequently determined basic Slaughter indexes: the hardest sound, politically aimed lyrics, extreme left-radical positions of the band’s members... We hope that the unity in music will become a clear and persuasive call to the united activities in the struggle against common evils: social injustice, racism and the tyranny of the state. We are united in love for the heavy music and in hate for capitalism!"

"New World Non-Corporated" is their first full-length album, and it's not bad for the debut release. Though it is obviously made by people who're listening mostly to punk and red&anarchist skinhead music, and have no deep knowledge of metal. That's because some tracks on "New World Non-Corporated" sound too much like Slipknot or Soulfly, which is kind of disappointment to me - I'd prefer if they sound more like Pitchshifter or Fear Factory. Anyway, their music is enough catchy, powerful, and aggressive. Personally I like such tracks as "The Dead Remain Young" and "Set The World On Fire" (which is a cover version of a song by E-Type, with nice female backing vocals). It looks like their 2nd album is already out, and it's even more political (made in collaboration with members of various SHARP, RASH, anarcho-punk and communist heavy metal bands), but I haven't found it anywhere yet. Hope it would turn out better than the first one.

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I've already introduced this Portland-based band to you, and here's their full-length album. If you like their 2006 demo and "Vikingtid og Anarki" by Sorgsvart, you would like "Betwixt And Between". More stuff by their previous band (Fall Of The Bastards) is coming soon.

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Hospise is a new blackened hardcore project from Moscow by members of Angel's Eyes (acoustic screamo / experimental) and Sangai (d-beat / crust punk). Their first EP features dark and raw, yet melodic hardcore/post-metal with black metal overtones. The lyrics are good, so is the music. The quality of recording could be better, though.

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Minuala was started in 2003 in Petrozavodsk (Karelia) as a heavy post-rock/post-metal band. Now they're playing dark hardcore / neocrust with some post-rock overtones, and some of Minuala's members also play in Antimelodix. Though this album isn't as close to blackened crust as "Hellfuck" by Antimelodix, it's still very metallic neocrust - very powerful, dark and depressive (though a little repetitive, but it isn't a big problem...)
You can buy this album in many various distros - Bloodspit Distro, for example. For a free download, try this link.

With this split, I have the almost complete discography of Suicide Nation (except for the single "Creation Is Crucifixion"). And the song "Collapse & Die" presented on this split is just awesome. I think it's the best song ever recorded by Suicide Nation, and no wonder that A.Lundr (Panopticon) likes that song too ;)

This is Suicide Nation's first full-length album, one of the earliest examples of "black metal made by hardcore kids". Personally I like it less than "A Requiem For All That Ever Mattered", but it's still a good album, and all the works by Suicide Nation certainly don't deserve to be forgotten.

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Thanks to Eric (Contravene, A Cloud Forest) for sending me this release! It turned out that he was a bass player on this 7'', and he also have done the booklet with an environmentalist-themed article. All the scans (cover, artwork, lyrics and the inlay with the article) are included in the archive.

Many people have recommended me this release, and it's worth attention indeed. Leper are a misanthropic and very radical anarcho-primitivist blackened crust band, featuring some members of Iskra. You may agree or not agree with some of their views, but their music is good. Some sources describe their sound as "blackened ska", but in my opinion it's much less ska than "Beyond Good And P.C." by Dancehall Satan, for ex. Maybe their earlier releases ("Embarassed To Be Human" LP and various splits) had more ska influence, but "End Progress" is rather deeply blackened metallic crust.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

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One more rare demo for today, and now it's from a very radical green anarchist Swedish band. "Sprung from the vegan metal/hardcore act "through the mist of tears", with roots deeply entangled in punk and political hardcore, these seeds are blooming, bursting out into a fully fledged, and raw as hell, metal assault. SEEDS IN BARREN FIELDS engage, with black flags raised, in a battle against religious moral dogma, capitalism, nationalism, consumerism and social control. Promoting values of freedom such as (green) anarchy, animal liberation and gender equality as an alternative to being a part of a lost, scared and disillusioned mankind" - from their myspace. What else can I say? These tracks are good enough for a first demo, offering an interesting mix of blackened crust and melodic death metal. A split 7'' with Peregrine is reportedly coming soon, can't wait to hear it!

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Well, I'm trying to not post too much crust, but these songs are very hard to find. All the download links which I found in Google were dead, and it took a long time before I finally got this demo.

Yes, like those two bands I've posted before, Aradia is a female fronted band. Their drummer is a former member of Fall Of Efrafa (I guess you all heard about that band). Just like FOE, Aradia is a concept band. As a mythological character, Aradia (Herodias) was a daughter of Diana and Lucifer. She was sent to the earth to be the first witch there, and to make a revolt against rich oppressors with help of her supernatural powers and knowledge. The story of Aradia has a clear left wing context, so I haven't surprised that a pagan crust band was inspired by that story. Hope the full-length release by them will come soon!

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One more female-fronted band, now it's from Czech Republic. Looks like they're somehow related to Czech hardcore scene, and their lyrics are about nature and (violent) defense of it. So I think I'd fit into my "green anarchist black metal" category, though I don't hear much black metal on this album. It's gothic metal with some BM overtones (though their later stuff may be more "black"). Formed in 1994, the band changed its lineup multiple times. That's how they looked in early 2000s:

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Oakhelm is a pagan folk/black metal project by Pete Jay (a former member of a well-known anarchist grindcore band Assück), and the members of now split-up blackened death metal band Fall Of The Bastards (who're regarded as one of the first anarcho-friendly black metal bands from Cascadia). This release was recommended to me by 7inchcrust too, and it's very good for a first demo. I haven't listened to their subsequent full-length album "Betwixt and Between" yet, but I hope it'll be comparable with Sorgsvart's albums.

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Yes, Dažd have released their first full-length album, and thanks to some anonymous who had posted a link to it in my blog. In comparison with their earlier releases, their sound drifted away from crust and black metal to sludge/doom and stoner rock. It's up to you to decide, good it or not.

P.S. Don't you think I'm posting too much blackened crust and too little BM (and other kinds of metal)? I have many more interesting releases to you, and I'll post them in the next few days. Most of them are blakened crust too, but there are also many black metal and other metal releases. Stay tuned!

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Summon The Crows are a political blackened crust / melodic metal band from Oslo, Norway. This album proves that Norwegian crust can be no worse than Swedish. As for me, the more suitable stylistic definition for this album should be "crust metal", but "blackened crust" is applicable too. And according to their myspace, they really hate cops ;)

It seems like the band is inactive now, though not split up. Let's wait for the new album!

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The band's name makes not much sense (maybe it's from Czech word which means "hive"), but the music is good. If you like Timebomb and XDeclarationX, you'll definitely like !ul. The first few tracks are metalcore (in the vein of another Czech straight edge metalcore band, XNidalX), and the following tracks are getting more and more close to black metal. The quality of production is very good, and I think I'm starting to like Czech scene more and more.

P.S. The name of track#5 translates as "Fuck Your God" or something like that, am I right?

Many people say it's blackened crust, but I can't hear much of black metal here; for me it's just thrash metal mixed with crust. Maybe there's something wrong with my ears?.. Anyway, it's a good album. Members of Dishammer also play in a lot of other bands, but I haven't heard any of them.

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And finally, one more band who are mixing punk sound and ideology with black metal aesthetics. They're from Tomsk (western Siberia), and they're playing really blackened anarcho-punk! And check out these symphonic interludes, they're really great.

P.S. Archive includes all the lyrics translated to Russian and English, and all the release notes as well. The CD is available through They Live! distro.

A split album by two "satanicrust" bands - one from USA, and another one from Crimea (south Ukraine). Both bands are very close to black metal, musically and aesthetically. BTW, I've been to Crimea multiple times, but I didn't know there are bands like Tötentanz :/

20 Minites De Chaos were active through early 1997 to late 2004 (don't know if they're active right now), and they were one of the first (if not the first) French bands to mix crust with various kinds of metal. It's also interesting that they had two female vocalists. According to their official site:

"20 Minutes de Chaos is a band playing kind of crusty-punk-hardcore-metal, call it as you want anyway. It is Do It Yourself for sure. Based in Dijon/France, the band exists under this name since early 1997. 20 Min. de Chaos knew many splits, breaks and line-up changes during this time"

The tracks on this compilation come from two splits, one with Alt TC (1999), and another with Execradores (2001). They also had a split with See You In Hell, but it features all the same tracks. Don't expect their sound to be very metallic - it was recorded in late 1990's-early 2000s, when metallic crust wasn't too widespread. Anyway, it's a very good compilation to anyone who likes female fronted crust and metal.

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It's the 2nd side of Poreia Sto Perithorio / Epithanatios Roghos (or Epithanatios Ronghos - I'm not sure which spelling is correct), which 1st side I've posted not long before. It's not much like blackened crust, but it's fine too. Thanks for some anonymous for posting these tracks!

As for Epithanatios Roghos, they have split up, but a new band called Teleutaios Aionas (The Last Century) has members of them. Last year Epithanatios Roghos played together with Tragedy at the Street Attack squad at Thessaloniki, Greece.

Here comes one more release from a mysterious Italian band who were one of the first to mix anarchist sXe hardcore/metalcore with symphonic black metal. These 3 tracks by Timebomb appeared earlier on "Hymns For A Decaying Empire", but this split features newer versions of them, and it's much more heavy. If you like "Full Wrath Of The Slave" (the best album by Timebomb so far), you'll definitely like these tracks.

Redemption's side of the split is interesting too. Though the songs' names are ridiculous, they feature a very special approach to hardcore (and some female vocals as well).

There is very little further info on both these bands (I even haven't found any photos of them). Some mentions of Timebomb can be found here, though. And this split is very rare too, so I doubt if you can find it anywhere else. Don't know if I should post their LP "The Beat Is Here Fellas" (2001), since it's much more rock than hardcore or metal... but at least it's a good release too.

Yes, I haven't planned to post anything this week. But right now I've nothing else to do, and I don't know if I'd have enough free time in the 2nd half of this month, so now I'll try to post as much albums as possible.

A link to this demo was posted somewhere in the comments to my blog about a month ago, but I completely forgot about it. I'm sorry, really :/ According to info I've found, Blood In Our Wells is a new Czech blackened crust band featuring members of an anarcho-crustcore act Mass Genocide Process, and some other bands (Tomorrow’s Hell, Your Choice, Abu Ghraib, Kruh). They're antifascists and vegetarians, and some of them are anarchists. I wouldn't call their music "blackened crust", but rather just "crust metal" - since there are much more influences of melodic death and even doom metal, than BM. The quality of production is very good for a first demo, too bad it's so short.

There are also an atmospheric black metal band called Kruh consisting of the same people who are in Blood In Our Wells and Mass Genocide Process. Unfortunately I haven't found their album anywhere, but at least one song "Zima" ("Winter") is pretty good.

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First of all: there's probably a lot of broken English on this blog. Hope it isn't that bad, at least I'm trying to do my best. Feel free to point me to any of my mistakes, if there are any. -B.K.

If you're playing in a band and want to see your music featured on our blog - just send a download link of your demo to us:

- oiseau [@] riseup [.] net - for basically anything RABM-related, but she is generally interested in atmospheric, depressive, and post-BM stuff, as well as the projects from Latin America (and Mexico in particular). You can also contact her via facebook.

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- any other info about you and your release (links to any sites related to your band, release notes, etc.);

- reason why you want your music to be featured on our blog (note that it's not just another metal blog, and even if your band is apolitical, it still should be somehow in the spirit of RABM movement).

Most of the uploads here are band sanctioned. Anyway, if you for some reason don't want to see your music here, contact us via email (rabmblog [@] gmail [.] com), and we'll consider taking it down.

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FAQ

Q.: Which kinds of music are featured on this blog?

A.: - (primarily) RABM or Red & Anarchist Black Metal: all kinds of black metal-related music charged with radical leftist (anarchist, libertarian socialist, eco-anarchist, etc.) political views. Some of the bands featured here may be not openly political, but all of them are RABM-friendly;

- blackened crust/hardcore/punk (only if it's openly RABM-friendly, or if it's just very good music; we have no intention to collect here all the blackened punk in existence);

A.: Most bands nowadays have a bandcamp page, where you can but their stuff online (usually for an arbitrary price). It's the most convinient way to support the band. If your favourite band don't have a bandcamp or bigcartel page, try to find out in which distro you can find their albums/merch. Of course, go to concerts if you have such opportunity.

Q.: How can I offer my financial support to this blog, or the RABM movement in general?

A.: Unfortunately right we don't have an opportunity to accept donations, but we hope we'll be able to set it up soon.

Q.: What is the connection between black metal and hardcore/punk/crust?

A.: It's a well-established fact that the connection between black metal and punk scenes existed since the early days of BM (think Venom, early Bathory, early Mayhem and early Sodom on one side, and Amebix, Discharge and Axegrinder on another). Recently this mix of BM and hardcore punk got a new life in the form of blackened crust (thanks to Black Kronstadt / Iskra in first place). And don't forget about Cascadian black metal bands with their radical environmentalist ideology, often to the extent of radical eco-anarchism or "pro-nature/anti-humanity" ideas.

Q.: What's your main ideology?

A.: This blog is generally written from a position of anarchism without adjectives; however, the RABM scene is very diverse ideologically. Let us end on this, as this blog isn't quite a right place for purely political debates; if you want to learn or argue about anarchism/other ideologies, there's a lot of specialized FAQs/blogs/forums for you.

Q.: Isn't black metal supposed to be apolitical?

A.: Supposed by whom? I personally don't think so, but if you think that political awareness should have no place in "true" black metal, you can feel free to call the bands featured on here "blackened punk" or whatever you want. It should be noted, though, that a lot of these bands doesn't openly talk about politics in their lyrics, exactly because they think it wouldn't be suitable for black metal. - B.K.

Q.: Isn't RABM just an "answer" to NSBM?

A.: While RABM is definitely against NSBM and any other kind of far-right crap in metal scene, it's most emphatically a self-sufficient movement and not any kind of "answer to NSBM". Similarly, while RABM is 100% pro liberation from any kinds of religious tyranny, it isn't a movement against any particular religion (Christianity, Islam, or any other).

Q.: What's your opinion on Satanism?

A.: The so-called "Hollywood Satanism", which is often found in black metal, is, in our opinion, nothing more than inverted Christianity, so we aren't big on it. Many of us are simply atheists, pagans of all kinds, gnostics, etc. We also don't share the notion that only genuine theistic Satanists / Devil-worshippers can play "real" black metal (this would exclude such bands as Venom, Bathory, Immortal, Summoning, and many many others). Additionally, the very term "Satanism" is quite vague, and can't be narrowed down to LaVeyan Satanism (which is heavily disliked by many black metallers), or whatever else. LaVey had some good points, but in general his philosophy can be described just as "Ayn Rand with some occult tinge".

Q.: What about misanthropy and nihilism?

A.: To put it in short: we don't hate everyone and everything (and we don't think there's anyone﻿ who truly does). We just hate these traits of humanity which make true anarchist society most likely infeasible in the foreseeable future.

Q.: Collectivism or individualism?

A.: There actually is no "hard" contradiction between these two terms. Individualism is simply an outlook emphasizes the moral worth of the individual and its right not to be oppressed by the state or some social group. It doesn't contradict at all with standing up for your rights along with a group of like-minded individuals. It also worth noting that the early black metal scene didn't promote individualism that much (see "black metal circles").

Q.: Who coined the term "RABM"?

A.: Hard to say, but there's an apparent similarity to RASH ("Red & Anarchist Skinheads"). Here's the very first mention of "RABM" we could find (August 2005). The term was popularized by our last.fm group (and later - by this blog) since 2009.

Q.: Do you know the ideology of the band X? It isn't obvious if they're NSBM or not...

A.: Sorry, we don't know, do your own research. It's often hard to say anything certain about a band's views, if the members themselves aren't open about it. We also don't advice using various "lists of nazi bands" etc. as a reference, as most of them are full of bullshit. Similarly, forum posts or blog comments (especially anonymous ones) generally aren't a reliable source for anything. In one particular case, we had an anonymous comment claiming that the members of Timebomb are now playing in a fascist band called SPQR. Later it turned out that it were members of a completely other Italian band with a similar name (Timebombs). Hopefully that'd be a good example of how important fact-checking is.

Q.: I've seen some of the albums posted here in the same distro with some albums by right-leaning bands...

A.: Unfortunately it's often the case with distros and labels that distribute stuff regardless of its political affiliation. Even Austin Lunn of Panopticon complained about Pagan Flames (the label which released his "Collapse" and "Social Disservices" LPs) having NSBM in their distro, so things like these are just unavoidable.

Q.: Some bands on this blog have Burzum on their list on influences. Isn't Varg Vikernes a nazi?